After making a fresh installation of Fedora 26 Workstation x86_64, I started to restore local file backups, including my entire home directory, virtual machines from /var/lib/libvirt/, /root/.bashrc, and a few things in /etc/, using rsync. During this operation, I hit *a lot* of SE Linux alerts, including this one, plus others that have already recently been reported.

SETroubleshoot reports "SELinux is preventing /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-journald from search access on the directory root... root default label should be syslogd_var_run_t." It recommends running

    /sbin/restorecon -v root

But there is/was no `root/` in my current working directory or home directory. I was restoring backups *from* a directory called root on another hard drive, which matches the filesystem hierarchy of /, so that I can rsync the files and folders I mentioned above in one go, like this:

    rsync \
      # Preserve file owner, timestamp, permissions, sparseness
      --archive --sparse --executability --acls --xattrs \
      # Display and save transfer progress
      --partial --info=name,progress2 --log-file="$log_file" \
      # Source and destination:
      $backup_device/root/  /

If "root" refers to that directory, then the recommended restorecon command should have specified the full path. Also, when I tried restorecon on the backup directory, it just says "Warning no default label for $backup_device/root/".

If "root" means either / or /root/, then I'm also not sure how the context of either of those directories could have gotten messed up, since rsync has no options to preserve the SELinux file context, so it's not like I was duplicating incorrect contexts from my backups, and I only copied one file in /root/ anyway.